Record Number: 20731
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 7 Jul 1875
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer and intermittent law student
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The History of a Pavement
Genre:Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsJuly 1875, in the Fortnightly Review.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20731
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:148-9
Additional Comments:
Letter 402, To Sidney Colvin, [7 July 1875], [Swanston]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The material in square brackets has been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 148-9, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20731, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
On p.149, the Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 402 reads: “Colvin’s article, ‘The History of a Pavement’ in the July "Fortnightly Review" about the engraved and inlaid marble floor of the Cathedral in Siena. The Fitzwilliam Museum had acquired a set of drawings which Colvin used as the basis for a series of lectures.”
